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A Look At The Future: Business strategist B. Joseph Pine II sees a tectonic shift under way for businesses of all sizes. The ground rules are changing just as they did when the nation’s economic focus switched from agriculture to mass production. This time, the shift is from mass production to what ...read more
Tags: Workplace
Loyalty: F-O-R-T-U-N-E Personnel Consultants national research uncovered key reasons employees stay. The 3 most important reasons for staying with an employer are: challenging work, the ability to balance work with family life, and compensation. The 3 least important reasons for staying are: ...read more
Great PR: Companies are becoming more creative in how they support philanthropy. More are offering employees paid time off for volunteer work. Such policies make for excellent public relations. In today’s still-tight labor market, companies are also betting that work-life benefits such as volunteer ...read more
What Is A CPO? A Chief Privacy Officer oversees a company’s privacy policies and practices, monitoring how the corporation handles confidential information about consumers and employees. Companies are trying to stave off overburdening privacy regulation by ...read more
Big E-Brother: Many government web sites routinely track visitors via permanent "cookies," or tiny text files that track visitors’ movements online, in clear violation of federal law, claims a preliminary ...read more
Nondisparagement Clauses are popping up in employment contracts. Here is an example; “Employee agrees not to make any derogatory comments in any format, whether written, electronic, or oral, to the press, or any individual or entity regarding the company that relates to the company’s business or ...read more
Occupation Spam is one of the fastest rising employee productivity challenges today. The term describes the unsolicited e-mail cluttering in-boxes, taxing servers, and occupying an average of 49 minutes of each employee’s workday. A recent Gartner survey finds 34% of the ...read more
About 5% of American workers -- or 6.8 million people -- were classified as "working poor" in 1999, according to the Labor Dept. ...read more
80% of U.S. companies keep tabs on their employees by checking their e-mail, Internet, or phone connections vs. 35% 4 years ago. ...read more
Insider Fraud Executives don’t realize that most computer fraud is committed by employees trying to extract inside information from the corporate systems, not by outside hackers, ...read more
Spy Badges Technology now offers employee ID badges that are read by computer-based mapping programs that track employees within a building or business campus every second. Hospitals use them to quickly locate doctors, but they can also reveal who spends too ...read more
Contraceptives for women must now be covered by group health plans of business that employ 15 or more people, according to 6/12 Federal District Court ...read more
Magazine newsstand return rates have gone from 35% in ‘73 to 52% in ‘88 to 65% last year. (Foster ...read more
The Gartner Group reports 60% to 80% of corporate computer crimes are committed by inside hackers. (Foster ...read more
Overworked With companies downsizing, those who remain find their jobs are demanding increasing amounts of time and energy. 54% feel overworked, 55% are overwhelmed by their workload, 59% lack time for reflection, 56% don’t have time to complete tasks ...read more
Americans typically change careers—not just jobs— 5 times in their lives. (Foster Letter ...read more
The story goes that when the company founded by Andrew Carnegie was taken over by the U.S. Steel Corporation in 1901 it acquired as one of its obligations a contract to pay the top Carnegie executive, Charles M. Schwab, the then unheard of minimum sum of $1,000,000. J.P. Morgan of U.S. Steel was in ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 25:21
Denomination: Lutheran
Collegiate Spiritual Practices: A new survey of students attending 46 colleges and universities finds a majority says religion and spirituality are important in their lives, but they also show a sharp drop-off of religious involvements as they move through their college years. Findings include: 73% ...read more
An astounding 75% of companies experienced at least one instance of fraud vs. 13% in ‘98, finds a KPMG survey. (Foster ...read more
Where Are You Going? A Franklin Covey survey finds less than half of U.S. workers are aware or are committed to their company’s goals. Only 48% say their employers have a clear, strategic direction. 44% say their organization has effectively communicated its goals. 54% understand what they ...read more
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